Are World Cup Semi-Finals a Good Idea?
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
There has been some big news in the past week around some of the rule changes to both the Downhill and Enduro Mountain Bike World Cup for 2023, so I thought it would be a good idea to get on a couple of people who live and breathe this to help us understand the changes and how they might impact things.
So I’m joined by Downtime’s first and second ever guests, Chris Kilmurray and Neko Mulally to dig into the changes in the rule book and what they actually mean. How will a semi-final work, who will have protected status and how does the points structure impact the riders. Will skin suits return? Is live radio communication to riders likely to happen and plenty more. So sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Chris and Neko.
You can find Chris on Instagram @point1athletic and Neko @nekomulally.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, there's been some big news in the past week around some of the rule changes to both downhill and enduro at a World Cup level for 2023. |
| 0:11.0 | So I thought it would be a good idea to get on a couple of people who live and breathe this to help us understand the changes and how they might impact things. |
| 0:18.2 | So I'm joined by Down Time's first and second ever guests, Chris Kilmurray |
| 0:22.4 | and Nico Malali, to dig into the changes in the rule book and what they mean. How will a semi-final |
| 0:27.5 | work? Who will have protected status and how does the point structure impact the riders? Will |
| 0:32.3 | skin suits return? Is live radio communication to riders likely to happen? And plenty more. |
| 0:37.9 | While you're here, we've got a couple of awesome discounts this month for downtime listeners |
| 0:40.9 | with 20% off everything from 7Mesh, who are taking cycling clothing to a new level of performance and quality, |
| 0:46.9 | and 15% off everything from WeR1 Composites, |
| 0:49.6 | who are making insanely well-engineered carbon fiber wheels and bikes over in Camloops in Canada. |
| 0:54.5 | For 20% off at 7Mesh, use the code downtime 7Mesh20 over at 7Mesh.com. |
| 1:00.1 | And for 15% off at WeR-1, use the code downtime December 15 over at we are 1 composites.com. |
| 1:06.0 | And remember that that code will only work at the very final stage of the checkout process, |
| 1:09.9 | which is called Confirm Order. You'll find the details of those codes on the web page for this episode at |
| 1:15.1 | downtimepodcast.com. Don't forget to follow the podcast by hitting the follow button in your |
| 1:19.6 | podcast app now and also give us a follow on social media where we are at Downtown Podcast. |
| 1:24.7 | All right, time to chat, world Cup rule changes with Chris and Nico. |
| 1:31.5 | All right, welcome back to the podcast, Nico Malali and Chris Kilmurie. Nico, you've been pretty |
| 1:37.8 | busy, a new bike park, you've been continuing the development of your frameworks project, and hopefully |
| 1:44.1 | we'll have a chance at some |
| 1:46.0 | point next year to have a full podcast episode to go through all that. So we won't go into it in too |
| 1:49.7 | much detail right now. But is everything well were you? Yeah, everything's great. We're partway |
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